Following the large study of Production, Power, and World Order by Robert Cox (noted in Foreign Affairs, Winter 1987/88), his associate Jeffrey Harrod applies the same general approach to unprotected workers, "the least powerful of producers within the world labor force." Fitting an extraordinary range of material into a rigorous framework (which, however, does not deaden the sensitivity of an engagé author), the book tells a great deal about subsistence farmers, peasants, casual laborers, unorganized workers with regular jobs, the self-employed and household workers. Taken together they may constitute half the workers of the world, or three-quarters of those in the noncommunist world.
